Ubuntu – what is the command line equivalent to using nautilus to connect to a samba drive

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To connect to a samba shared drive on my network, I can use nautilus, press ctrl+l and type in smb://192.168.0.x, enter my credentials and am able to connect and browse the drive.

How can I do the same thing from the command line?

Best Answer

Use the mount command sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.x/<Share> /path/to/mount -o username=myuser,password=mypass

/path/to/mount is an existing directory.

You may need to install cifs-utils but I think its included with Ubuntu desktop.

In most cases:

$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs

14.04:

/run/user/$(id -u)/gvfs

12.10:

/run/user/<username>/gvfs

12.04:

Since 12.04 the folder of mounted samba share is:

~/.cache/gvfs

11.10 and older

You can learn how to mount - it will sure works. But I think this is an easier solution for you: Nautilus mount smb partitions at ~/.gvfs (where ~/ means /home/user_name/ - example: /home/desgua/.gvfs).
You just have to navigate to there:

cd ~/.gvfs

Ubuntu – Cannot connect to Samba share from Nautilus

I found a simple answer in this ubuntuforums.org thread

The newer versions of samba are not supporting anymore by default the LANMAN authentication scheme that is used by the DLink DNS323. To correct this issues, the only thing to do is:

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find the [global] section, and insert this line:

client lanman auth = yes

You don't even have to reboot and you will be able to mount your shared folders with Gnome Nautilus.

This is also required to connect to the samba shares of another Lucid box (if they're password protected). Ironic, isn't it?